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[ad_1] SINGAPORE – The only coronavirus case in the community on Friday (March 26) was a 26-year-old Myanmar citizen employed as a foreign domestic worker here, the Ministry of Health (MOH) said. This is the first case of Covid-19 transmitted locally since March 12. She developed a cough and a …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE: There is “minimal waste” of COVID-19 vaccine doses at Singapore vaccination sites, with usage rates carefully monitored through appointments, the Ministry of Health (MOH) said on Friday (March 26). Monitoring allows advance planning of vaccine needs, to facilitate shipping and delivery of an adequate number of doses to …

[ad_1] BANGKOK (REUTERS) – Thai health officials were quick to quell public fears on Friday (March 26) after confirming that a man had died 10 days after receiving a Covid-19 vaccine earlier this month. The cause of death was from an abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) and a rupture, said senior …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE: Singapore reported a locally transmitted COVID-19 case as of noon on Friday (March 26), the first of these infections in two weeks. The community’s case was one of 12 new infections reported on Friday, the Health Ministry (MINSA) said in its preliminary daily update. Commercial Commercial The remaining …

[ad_1] John Burke, chief of the Sandwich, Massachusetts, Fire Department, with a device designed to detect airborne coronavirus particles. (Thermo Fisher Scientific via The New York Times) A decade ago, when firefighter John Burke earned his master’s degree in health care emergency management, he wrote his thesis on pandemic planning. …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE – The last remaining local cluster of Covid-19 infections has closed, the Ministry of Health (MOH) said on Thursday (March 25) evening. “As there have been no more cases linked to the 60,102 case group during the last two incubation periods (28 days), the group has been closed. …

[ad_1] South China morning post ‘We’re in this together,’ Antony Blinken tells NATO after wave of sanctions against China US Secretary of State Antony Blinken used his first official European pledge on Tuesday to discuss America’s renewed embrace of the transatlantic alliance, a day after Western nations engaged in a …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE – More than 80 percent of staff at educational institutions that have been invited to receive the Covid-19 vaccine have made appointments to do so, Education Minister Lawrence Wong said. On March 10, nearly 50,000 letters were sent out in the first batch of invitations, encouraging educators to …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE – Forty-six workers lost their hands or fingers in amputation accidents last year, mainly due to unsafe use of machinery. These injuries, which often have a lasting impact on workers’ lives and livelihoods, can be prevented, stressed the Minister of State for Manpower, Zaqy Mohamad, on Thursday (March …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE – Singaporean employers will switch to a “more flexible and hybrid way of working” starting next month as the country will take further steps to relax some Covid-19 measures, Education Minister Lawrence Wong said in a press conference on Wednesday (March 24). ). Starting April 5, more employees …